"Mister Potter, Miss Evans you may take a seat," Dumbledore gestured to two chairs set up by the window in the infirmary. Lily and James nodded and sat down.

"So Professor Flitwick, Madam Pomfrey and I have come to find some charms we hope work," Dumbledore informed them. "After you Professor."

Professor Flitwick stepped up and pointed his wand at James and Lily's adjoined wrists. "Just a simple separating charm," he squeaked. "Singulus!" Lily watched the light from the professor's wand dim and fade away, Dumbledore nodded for them to test it and James and Lily tried to tug their wrists away from each other.

Nothing had changed and they came springing back, Lily nearly falling out of her chair.

"Well then," Flitwick looked puzzled as he frowned at their connected wrists.

"Filius, the other one," Dumbledore reminded.

"Oh! Right, right." Professor Flitwick raised his wand again. "Now, brace yourselves. This may cause some...discomfort."

"What kind of-" Lily started but was cut off as Porfessor Flitwick spoke the charm.

"Scindosium!"

Immediately Lily and James' wrists became to itch and tickle. Then it felt as if something was pulling at their wrists, then their hands and wrists relaxed for a moment, then went back to being pulled.

"Filius, enough," Dumbledore said. The professor lowered his wand and looked at their wrists. Again, nothing had changed.

"That's it?" Lily asked. "It didn't work then?"

"I'm afraid not, Miss Evans. But we seemed to be quite close there for a moment." Dumbledore paused for a moment. "I don't think the charm is strong enough. It's close, but it's not enough."

"You need a way to concentrate it then?" James questioned.

Dumbledore smiled at him. "Yes Mister Potter, it would appear so."

How much longer are we going to be stuck together then? Lily wanted to scream. Oh Merlin! What if we stay like this forever? No. No that won't happen. Dumbledore will find a way to fix this. He has to find a way to fix this.

"Headmaster, if that's all may we return to your classes?" Lily asked, still sounding a little disappointed from the lack of results.

"If you wish Miss Evans. We are in no way rushing you."

"That's fine," Lily smiled and stood, pulling James up with her. "We'll just leave now."

"Bye Dumbledore!" James called over his shoulder as Lily dragged him out of the hospital wing.

Merlin, she really is stronger than she looks.

!

"Smile!"

"What?" Lily turned and the camera flashed bright in her eyes. She screamed. "Black! What the bloody hell was that for?"

"Sirius," James sighed and shook his head. "I told you to take a picture of them, not blind them with the flash."

"I don't see the difference," Sirius shrugged and Lily rolled her eyes. "So where is this lucky girl who wins the date with moi me?"

"Sirius do you even know what moi means?" Lily asked.

"Not a clue," Sirius grinned. "So where is she?"

Lily stood on her toes to try and see over the rest of the students in the corridor's heads. Finally she spotted them. "Oh, here Alice comes with her right now."

"Hey," Alice greeted them as she came up. The girl standing beside her had straight, blonde hair that just barely touched the tops of her shoulders. She wasn't overly tall but she was taller than both Alice and Lily, with a slender form to match.

"Hey," I smiled. "Khloe, it's nice to meet you. Alice said you two have Muggle Studies together right?"

"Yeah," Khloe answered distractedly.

Alice grinned. "Well Khloe, this is Sirius Black and James Potter."

"Hi! I'm Khloe. With a K. Kuh-loe," Khloe stuck out a perfectly manicured hand and shook Sirius'. "I'm so pshyed to be going on a date with the Sirius Black!"

Guess Alice wasn't kidding when she said this girl was perfect for the job.

"Call me Sirius," Sirius winked, eating up all the attention.

"Fine Sirius," Khloe smiled and winked back at him.

"So," Sirius kept his cool exterior as he looked Khloe up and down. "What're you into?"

"You," she answered, a mischievous smile on her face.

"Ahem," James interrupted.

Sirius just continued smiling lopsidedly at Khloe and Khloe just continued to smile back.

"Ahem," James repeated.

Leave it to Lily and Alice to find the one girl left in the school who hasn't dated Sirius and would actually go along with his 'perfect date'.

Lily rolled her eyes at the pair. "Excuse me? Khloe?" she tried. "Kuh-loe?"

Neither of them turned. James leaned as far as he could to reach Sirius and hit his arm. "Padfoot!"

Sirius looked up and wiped the flirt off his face to look at his best mate. "Prongs?" he snapped back impatiently.

"The camera..."

"Right! Okay, Lily, Khloe, we need to get some pictures of the two of you," Sirius said. "Oh, well...and I guess James can be in the pictures too."

"Just take Khloe first and then Lily and me," James instructed.

Sirius nodded and took Remus' muggle camera (charmed to take magical pictures) out of his bag.

"Do I pose?" Khloe asked.

"If you'd like to," James answered.

"Okay," Khloe seemed to light up at that. She put her hands on her hips, pouted, and tilted her chin up.

Sirius shrugged and snapped the picture.

"Is that good?" Khloe shot a look at Sirius and he nodded indifferently.

"We'll need to get one of you turning around," James told her.

Khloe nodded and turned slowly while fixing her hair. She went to turn again but James stopped her.

"That's good."

"'Kay," she shrugged and bounced off to stand at the side. "Sirius you want to see my other poses?"

"Uh...no...that's okay," Sirius gave her an odd look.

Okay, it's a good thing she's pretty.

"Give me the camera," Alice held out her hand and Sirius handed it over. "I'll take the pictures of Lily and James."

"Sure," Sirius nodded.

"Sirius come over here!" They all turned to watch Khloe, bouncing on the balls of her feet and clapping her hands as she looked at the portrait of a painter. "Look!" she pointed.

Is she serious?

Are you kidding me?

"Alice, isn't she in your Muggle Studies?" James raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah," Alice confirmed.

"She's...what's her ancestry?" James asked trying not to be offensive to anyone.

"Pureblood I think. Maybe half, why?"

James shook his head. She acts like she's never seen a moving picture.

Alice raised the camera. "Okay you two, get closer," she chuckled "Or at least closer than you are."

Lily scowled. "Why do you guys need these pictures anyways?"

"It's part of the surprise," James grinned. "We can't tell you."

"I think I have a right to know," Lily protested.

"Lily, trust me, it's nothing bad," James assured. "It's just..."

"Can you just tell me what the pictures are for?" Lily asked. James looked at her. She actually looked upset, and not in the usual 'I'm angry with you, you better run,' way either. She looked worried.

"Lils, I'm sending them to my mum," he said. "It's all for the date...I swear."

"Fine," Lily consented.

Alice sighed in relief. "Okay, now move in," she directed.

Lily stepped closer to James and he wrapped an arm around her waist. Lily's immediate reaction was to elbow him away and get his arm off of her, but for once she stopped herself and just relaxed into it. Or at least, as much as she could relax knowing James Potter's arm was around her waist.

Alice was about to snap the picture when she stopped. "Lily," she said lowering the camera. "It's okay to smile you know."

Lily tried to force a smile but it came out as more of a grimace. Alice shook her head. "James, do something."

Right. You want her to smile so get the guy she hates to make her. That makes perfect sense!

"Er..." he looked down at Lily. Then away at Sirius and Khloe. That could work... "Hey Lily," he motioned for Alice to get the camera ready, just in case it worked. "What do you think of Khloe?"

"Khloe?" Lily whispered back slightly annoyed.

"Yeah you know, with a K. Kuh-loe."

Lily laughed and James smiled just as Alice snapped the picture.

"Perfect." Alice looked at the camera. "Now, you need her to turn?"

"Right, um..."James looked at Lily, a smirk playing on his lips.

Before Lily could say anything James had lifted her hand, twirled her around, and dipped her. All Lily could do was go along with it.

"You get that?" James asked.

Alice nodded. "Hey Lils, that was surprisingly graceful."

Lily glared at Alice but let the smile tugging come out anyways as James brought her back to stand upright.

"Are we done?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, that's all we need," James took the camera back from Alice and thanked her before calling Sirius back over.

Khloe still stood by the portraits, poking at them. "Not very bright, that one," Sirius commented.

Alice shrugged. "She does fairly well in muggle studies."

James glanced over at Khloe. "How?"

!

Later on James and Sirius got Remus to get the pictures from the camera for them. James told Sirius to owl them to Mrs. Potter with a note explaining what they needed.

James was surprised when after dinner back in his room with Lily getting ready for bed an owl came to deliver something to him. James took the envelope from the owl, and it flew off.

"What's that?" Lily asked curiously.

"More plans for this weekend," James told her. Lily frowned and went back to combing her hair and James turned slightly on the side of the bed so Lily couldn't see what it was he was opening. It was a little uncomfortable, but only for him. Lily didn't notice.

James opened the envelope and pulled the note from inside.

Thought you might want this one mate. We didn't need it. Told Moony not to bother with the charms on it, I was going to toss it but figured you'd want it anyway. You're so obsessed you can add it to your collection of other 'Things from stalking Evans'.

-Padfoot

James opened the envelope to look inside and found something else. He pulled it out and looked at it.

It was a picture. Of him and Lily. It was from earlier when they were taking pictures, except it wasn't one James had asked Alice to take. It was after he had dipped Lily, when he was setting her back on her feet. She appeared to be smiling up at him and he was grinning down at her. They were facing each other and less than their six inches apart.

James smiled. It really was a good picture of them. You couldn't tell at all that Lily hated the bloke she was with in it.

I'll have to thank Alice later.

"Ready for bed?" Lily asked.

James tucked the picture away in the pocket of his robes. "Hold on," he changed quickly and then they both got under the covers and turned out the lights.

"Goodnight Lily," he said softly in the darkness.

What he wasn't expecting was to actually hear a response for once. "Goodnight James."

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